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WSBK Phillip Island: Carlos Checa cruises to another victory in race 2
Carlos Checa took another comfortable win in race 2 at the season opener at Phillip Island. The Althea Ducati rider once again took command of the race, almost repeating the same scenario of race 1, taking the lead on the third lap the Spaniard said good-bye to the rest of the field.
Max Biaggi took another second place, but this time the reigning World Champion had to sweat for the position with his former MotoGP rival, a superb and aggressive Marco Melandri (thank goodness Biaggi’s uncle isn’t around). Melandri fought tooth and nail against his fellow countryman, swapping positions continuously, but Biaggi would simply outspeed Melandri’s Yamaha R1 on the straight, but between his recovering shoulder, four crashes and a debut podium, Melandri really has something to write home about.
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WSBK Phillip Island Race 2: Carlos Checa wins last lap thriller
As usual racing at Phillip Island never lets fans wanting, if Race 1 didn’t disappoint, Race 2 was an absolute thriller. The Italians have a very pictoresque saying about close racing: “correre con il coltello tra i denti” which literally means racing with a knife between between your teeth and that’s what Carlos Checa did today on his privateer Ducati when he won the race.
The Spaniard who debuted with Althea Ducati Racing had a bad start leaving him in 11th on the first lap, but Checa was a man on a mission after his 7th place in Race 1 began working his way through the pack to join the four front runners to make a last lap move to take the victory in front of race 1 winner Leon Haslam followed by Michel Fabrizio who would take third place on the podium.
Haslam seemed to be heading to his second career victory and the race looked like a perfect photocopy of the first race with Fabrizio closely tagging the Brit and Noriyuki Haga in third moving up from his tenth place on the grid, but it would be former MotoGP and BSB rider Sylvain Guintoli who would snatch fourth place from a fading and aching Haga who took fifth.
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